On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 10:41 AM, Dave Whipp wrote:
But then we shift our perception to think that -> is an L2R pipe into aAnd note that as pretty as -> is, we couldn't have <- for piping because it would conflict rather strongly things like
block: not an anonymous sub composer. Similarly, the C<for> function is
a strange thing sends its elements down the pipe, one-by-one -- its not
a loop at afterall! (A junction, in contrast, would send its elements down
the pipe in random order, or concurrently).
if ($a<-5) # (negative five, or pipelike?)
Otherwise, using -> and <- would be ideal. Especially since then
$foo->bar
and
$foo.bar
are exactly equiv, helping perl5 people. Ah, well. :-/
MikeL
